Undocumented immigrants get KCC tuition break

11:24 AM,
Jan. 17, 2013

Donna Bona, Kellogg Community College

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Editor's note: This story has been updated to reflect KCC's clarification Thursday morning - undocumented immigrants must have lived in the district at least one year and have graduated from a local high school to avoid paying the international tuition rate.

College will be more affordable for some local undocumented immigrants after Kellogg Community College changed a longstanding policy that asked them to pay more than twice as much in tuition as other students.

The KCC Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to offer its in-district tuition rate to residents of the college's taxing ...